“Not only had the comedian paid the debt, he also alleviated Eric of having to pay any taxes on his "cancellation of debt" income. That's because the series paid for Eric's debt through "RIP Medical Debt," as a 501(c)(3) charity. Eric's debt was paid off, no strings attached.

“The show cautioned that this was for this medical debt only and not future medical debts.”

Billy Eichner, the screaming, yelling, hollering host of Billy on the Street, hit his normal beat this week with John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. As per Eichner’s thing, he wants to deflate the star of whoever is on the show with him. Sometimes it’s telling people that Seth Rogen is dead when Rogen is standing right next to him, and this time it was asking gay people if they care about John Oliver.

Accosting people on the street and asking them if they're gay and "care about John Oliver, Billy gets to the heart of one of the most pressing questions of the modern age: "Do gay people care about John Oliver?"

The answer, for the most part, is still no. But one thing Eichner does discover that they love Wendy Williams.

Last night, on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted his show to looking back at what enabled Trump’s victory, such as the media, social media, and the spread of fiction posing as fact, and what we should do next.

All half hour of the Last Week Tonight's season finale is now available on YouTube. Come for his election coverage, stay for his tribute to this terrible, terrible year.

As part of a segment on how seedy the debt buying industry is, John Oliver set up a debt buying company for about $50 online. He used the new company, called C.A.R.P., to buy $15 million of medical debt for the price of about $60,000.

Forgiving this debt is the largest one-time giveaway on television. Even outranking Oprah.

John Oliver has concluded that, rather than his 'straight talk', business acumen or blatant racism, Donald Trump's success is based mainly on his 'branding'. The association of success with the name Trump has been carefully cultivated. According to one historian, Donald's family name used to be 'Drumpf' which sounds much less prestigious. That's why Oliver wants to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain. via donaldjdrumpf

There's even a website where you can buy a neat hat! And, as with almost everything worth doing, there's also a Chrome extension for it, so you can instantly make Donald Drumpf again.

To be fair, Vanity Fair did mention the lack of gender diversity in their story:

What's conspicuously missing from late-night, still, is women. How gobsmackingly insane is it that no TV network has had the common sense—and that's all we're talking about in 2015, not courage, bravery, or even decency—to hand over the reins of an existing late-night comedy program to a female person?

And they did mention comedienne Samantha Bee's upcoming TBS late night talk show. She, however, decided to respond directly to the tweet, imagining herself in the picture with the rest of her peers.

"Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it's involved in a crime? They can!
It's a shady process called 'civil asset forfeiture,' and it would make for a weird episode of Law and Order."